His fondness for sweets prevented US Open semi-finalist Frances Tiafoe from an even earlier breakthrough. At least that’s what the tennis star’s coach, Wayne Ferreira, is convinced of.
“He liked a lot of sweets, chocolate and biscuits. He ate them at the most unusual times, often skipping breakfast for them,” Ferreira told a press conference. In the meantime, however, Tiafoe has corrected this problem.
However, it was not only his diet that showed weaknesses for a long time, but also the attitude of the US American, who reached the semi-finals of his home tournament with a three-set victory (7:6, 7:6, 6:4) over Russia’s Andrei Rublyov. “The effort in training and on the court was not good enough,” his coach said honestly.
It took “some time” and was a “bit of a struggle” “to get to where we are now”, Ferreira added. In the meantime, his protégé is “just behaving professionally”.
